The leftist holiness spiral has the same game theoretical underpinnings as a bank run. No one wants the bank to go under but if there's a chance it will you want to be first in line. No one wants to keep pushing to revolutionary Haiti but if everyone else will, you'd better. https://t.co/s7Dxx1xrOf
Broadly this is tragedy of the commons and as in all examples of tragedy of the commons it happens when there's a valuable resource that's lots of people can exploit but no one can own